Genes That Are Used As RNA
Many regions of the DNA are transcribed with RNA as the functional form:
- rRNA: Ribosomal RNA are used in the ribosome.
- tRNA: Transfer RNA are used in the translation process by bringing amino acids to the ribosome.
- snRNA: Small nuclear RNA are used in spliceosomes to help the processing of pre-mRNA.
- gRNA: Guide RNA are used in RNA editing.
- miRNA: Micro RNA are small (approximately 24 nucleotides) that are used in gene silencing.
- snoRNA: Small nucleolar RNA are used to help process and construct the ribosome.
Other RNAs are transcribed and not translated, but have undiscovered functions.
Read more about this topic: Eukaryotic Chromosome Fine Structure
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